YOUR DEFROST HEATER IN THE FREEZER IS BAD,YOU CAN REMOVE BACK PANEL TO GET TO IT,YOU NEED A VOLT METER TO CHECK IT,IF IT'S TO MUCH FOR YOU CALL A LOCAL HONEST APPLIANE REPAIR GUY PS DON'T CALL SEARS THEY COST A FORTUNE-MIKE

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Usually that is caused by a bad defrost heater thermostat or defrost timer. Failure to automatically defrost is the cause of freezing up.
If you don't feel up to doing the work yourself you should have an appliance repair shop look at it.

The gurgling is caused by water in the catch pan under the fridge. When you defrosted it some of the water made it into the drip pan (and maybe overflowed onto the floor). The fan inside the compressor area under and behind the freezer may be splashing in the excess water in the drip pan. This by itself is not a real problem since it is designed to automatically evaporate the water drained during automatic defrosting, but the excess water and potential overflow onto the floor can become a problem.

If the freezer is staying cold it sounds like a defrost system problem. A bad timer, heater or thermostat can cause frost to build up on the coils and block air flow to the refrig side. Check out ACMEHowTo.com for troubleshooting the defroster problem.
There is a small duct between the freezer and refrigerator side if this is blocked the frig side won't cool.

If you can locate the defrost timer and advance it to the defrost cycle you should be able to see the defrost elements glow behind the rear panel in the freezer. Do this before the freezer gets too frosted up. If you can't see the glow then there is a problem with the defrost heaters or the defrost thermostat. Unplug the frig and remove all the racks in the freezer. Remove the screws holding the rear panel on. Locate the two heaters and check the resistance. IF open, replace heaters. IF ok check resistance of the defrost thermostat. IF open when cold, replace defrost thermostat.
If replacing heaters always replace defrost thermostat at the same time. It will save you doing so at a later date

check to see if you have frost on the back panel of the freezer if so then defrost the unit and if your able to find the failure of the defrst heater or defrst thermostat,or the defrost thmer more than likely its the mother board since its a general electric frig but if you manually defrost until a repair tect can come then it will run normal until it frost up again but before you call the tech out make sure you have the frost on the back panel otherwise he'll make several trip trying to solve the problem with the frig unless its the defrst heater

Is this a self defrost model? Frost inside the freezer could be an air leak around the door gasket. Remove the back panel in the freezer and completely defrost the coils. Is the fan running in the freezer. That will make the frig not be cool. With the door closed peek in the gasket to make sure the light is shutting off, this will warm a frig also.Eric

it sound like your defrost heater or defrost sensor in the freezer is not working,do you know if it is going into defrost every 8 hours?if you have an ohms meter you can check there parts no problem ,let me know if you want to tackle this and i will help-mike

hello, my refrigerator got the following problem; it works fine at the freezer but there is no cold in the frig, when i unplug it from the wall connection and after few time connect it again, it start working, after few hours, the refrigerator stop, the freezer is fine and very cool,but the frig is not cool and the refrigerator do not start working again, even after the freezer gets warm.Please i hope you can help me with this problem.

Sounds like a defrost problem. Check to see if
there is any frost buildup in the back wall of the freezer. If so, it is not
defrosting as it should.

possible causes:

bad defrost timer

bad defrost heater (in freezer)

bad thermo switch in freezer

If you don’t know what these are then unplug the machine and let the ice
melt in the freezer overnight with the door open. Then try it the next day, if
is cooling fine then you need to have a service person replace one of the above
items.if you already checked this and think
it is a different problem then let me know, i will help you figure it out.Mike